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...Tomiko Yoda 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Literary History against the National Frame, or Gender and the Emergence of Heian Kana Writing Tomiko Yoda A number of narrative tales and diaries written during the mid-Heian period are counted among...

...Brian Tsui This article examines the politics of time and space in Nationalist China in connection with the regime's compromised anti-imperialism. It demonstrates that the Guomindang's nation-building project, which failed to confront capitalist social relations and the imperialist powers...

... by contributors to the volume. The first entails questions over the changing narratives of nationalism and history in Sino-Japanese-US relations, and as taught to and contested by Chinese overseas students. The second revolves around the use and display of visual images in pedagogical, digital, and scholarly...

...Christina Yi This article examines the intersection of kokugo (national language) ideology and the kōminka (imperialization) movement in the early 1940s through the juxtaposition of two key texts: the Japanese-language story “Hikari no naka ni” (“Into the Light,” 1939), written by the Korean writer...

...Christopher Lupke Duke University Press 2009 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Guest Editor’s Introduction Fractured Identities and Refracted Images: The Neither/Nor of National Imagination...

... infrastructure to nurture Aborigine talent in Taiwan's film industry, however vulnerable the industry may be. Duke University Press 2009 In the Realm of the Indigenous: Local, National, and Global Articulations in Fishing Luck Anita Wen-Shin Chang When I first saw Fishing Luck...

...Paik Nak-chung Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 553 Document The Idea of a Korean National literature Then and Now Paik Nak-chung Paik Nak-chung is one...

...Dai Jinhua 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Translated by Jonathan Noble Behind Global Spectacle and National Image Making Dai Jinhua The Tide of Nationalism In the spring and summer of 1996, the “popular political” best-seller China...

...James L. Hevia 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 World Heritage, National Culture, and the Restoration of Chengde James L. Hevia On 4 July 1995 China Daily, the English-language newspaper of the gov- ernment of the People’s Republicof China (PRC...

...Nina Cornyetz 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Amorphous Identities, Disavowed History: Shimada Masahiko and National Subjectivity Nina Cornyetz “I am my own, independent (hitori no) Tower of Babel,” proclaims Akuma Kazuhito, the protagonist...

...Hyun Sook Kim 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Commentary Korea’s “Vietnam Question”: War Atrocities, National Identity, and Reconciliation in Asia Hyun Sook Kim The “Vietnam Question” A new space for examining the Korean national identity and culture...

...Lisa Claypool This paper explores the uneasy position of painting in an early twentieth-century Shanghai publication, the National Essence Journal ( Guocui xuebao , 1905–11), published by the prominent and influential Society for Preservation of National Learning (Guoxue baocunhui). The publication...

... it. — Maxwell Hearn Benjamin wrote “Peintures chinoises à la Bibliothèque Nationale” (“Chi- nese Paintings at the National Library”) in late after visiting an exhibit in Paris, where he was living in exile. It was published in January...

... whose principle was the rational maximization of China’s “national capital.” It argues that the demographization of China’s population produced it as an economic factor, a biomass of “living capital,” which could be related to the problem of a national economy by means of an energistically conceived...

...Christopher Hill 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Mori Ogai’s¯ Resentful Narrator: Trauma and the National Subject in “The Dancing Girl” Christopher Hill The career of Mori Ogai,¯ in its most common interpretation, appears to be a symbol...

...Katri Kauhanen The Korean National Council of Women, a women’s organization established in 1959, has received criticism in Korean literature for its collaboration with the authoritarian regimes that ruled South Korea for decades. This article, however, argues for a different kind of interpretation...

...Yanshuo Zhang Abstract This article probes a long‐overlooked concept in modern China—ethnic indigeneity—to propose new ways of looking at the relationship between the Chinese nation and its multiethnic minority groups. The Western scholarly community has long held that because the Chinese state...

...Margaret Hillenbrand Duke University Press 2006 The National Allegory Revisited: Writing Private and Public in Contemporary Taiwan Margaret Hillenbrand The idea for this article began some time ago when I gave a presentation on questions...